Born on this day – Ray Bradbury:

Ray Bradbury

Writer

August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012

Credits:

Death is a Lonely Business (1985); A Graveyard for Lunatics (1990); Let's All Kill Constance (2003); Dandelion Wine (1957); Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962); Farewell Summer (2006); Summer Morning, Summer Night (2008); Fahrenheit 451 (1953); The Halloween Tree (1972); Green Shadows, White Whale (1992); Ahmed and the Oblivion Machines (1998); From the Dust Returned (2001); Dark Carnival (1947); The Martian Chronicles (1950); The Illustrated Man (1951); A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories (1952); The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953); The October Country (1955); The Day It Rained Forever (1959); A Medicine for Melancholy (1959); The Small Assassin (1962); R Is for Rocket (1962); The Machineries of Joy (1964); The Vintage Bradbury (1965); The Autumn People (1965); Twice 22 (1966); Tomorrow Midnight (1966); S is for Space (1966); Fever Dream And Other Fantasies (1968); I Sing the Body Electric (1969); Ray Bradbury (1975); Long After Midnight (1976); Ray Bradbury Collected Short Stories (1979); The Stories of Ray Bradbury (1980); The Last Circus and the Electrocution (1980); Dinosaur Tales (1984); A Memory of Murder (1984); The Toynbee Convector (1988); Selected from Dark They Were and Golden-Eyed (1990); Classic Stories 2 (1990); Quicker Than the Eye (1996); Driving Blind (1997); One More for the Road (2002); Stories Volume 2 (2003); Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales (2003); The Cat's Pajamas (2004); Now and Forever (2007); We'll Always Have Paris (2009); A Pleasure to Burn (2010); The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: Critical Edition Vol 1 (2011); The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: Critical Edition Vol 2 (2014); The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: Critical Edition Vol 3 (2017); Killer, Come Back To Me (2020); Venus Remembered (2020); The Poems (1945); Skeletons (1945); The Homecoming (1946); The Black Ferris (1948); The Blue Bottle / Death-Wish (1950); There Will Come Soft Rains (By: Leonard Nimoy) (1950); The Veldt (1950); A Sound of Thunder (1951); The Fog Horn (1951); The Playground (1953); All Summer in a Day (1954); The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (1972); The Mummies of Guanajuato (1978); One Timeless Spring (1980); The Love Affair (1982); Death Has Lost Its Charm For Me (1987); Fever Dream (1987); The Thing at the Top of the Stairs (1988); The Dragon Who Ate His Tail (2007); Marionettes, Inc. (2009); Defense Mech (2021); Why Man Explores (1977); The Art of Playboy (1985); Zen in the Art of Writing (1987); Folon's Folons (1990); Yestermorrow (1991); Rod Steiger: Memoirs of a Friendship (1998); Imagining Space: Achievements, Predictions, Possibilities 1950-2050 (2001); Conversations with Ray Bradbury (2004); Bradbury Speaks (2005); Match to Flame (2007); Listen to the Echoes (2010); When Elephants Last In The Dooryard Bloomed (1973); Where Robot Mice & Robot Men Run Round in Robot Towns (1977); This Attic Where the Meadow Greens (1979); The Haunted Computer and the Android Pope (1981); The Complete Poems of Ray Bradbury (1982); Kaleidoscope (1940); The Anthem Sprinters and Other Antics (1963); Pillar of Fire and Other Plays for Today, Tomorrow, and Beyond Tomorrow (1975); Nemo! (2012); Star Science Fiction Stories No. 2 (1953); Learning to Live Finally (2005); Roberto Bolaño: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations (2009); Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview (2011); Jorge Luis Borges (2012); Hannah Arendt: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2013); James Baldwin: The Last Interview: and other Conversations (2014); Ray Bradbury (2014); Gabriel García Márquez (2015); Lou Reed (2015); Ernest Hemingway (2015); Nora Ephron: The Last Interview (2015); Philip K. Dick (2015); J. D. Salinger (2016); Oliver Sacks (2016); Jane Jacobs (2016); David Bowie (2016); Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2017); Christopher Hitchens (2017); Hunter S. Thompson (2018); Kathy Acker: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2018); Julia Child: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2018); Ursula K. Le Guin (2019); Graham Greene: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2019); Toni Morrison: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2020); Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2020); Shirley Chisholm: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2021); Fred Rogers: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2021); Johnny Cash: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2021); John Lewis: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2021); Janet Malcolm: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations (2022); Kurt Cobain: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2022); bell hooks: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2023); Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2023); Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Adaptation (2009); Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles: The Authorized Adaptation (2011); Something Wicked This Way Comes: The Authorized Adaptation (2011); Invasion From Mars:Interplanetary Stories (1949); Star Science Fiction Stories 3 (1955); Alfred Hitchcock Presents 13 More Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV (1957); Stories for the Dead of Night (1957); The Ghoul Keepers (1961); The Bedside Playboy (1963); Alfred Hitchcock's Monster Museum: Twelve Shuddery Stories for Daring Young Readers (1965); The Microcosmic God (1965); Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories That Scared Even Me (1967); Worlds to Come: New Science Fiction Adventures (1967); Time Untamed (1967); 21 Great Stories (1969); Nova 1 (1970); Young Demons (1972); The Devil's Generation (1973); Galaxy Science Fiction - October 1973 (1973); Gooseflesh (1974); Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow... (1974); Beyond Midnight (1976); The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction 22nd Series (1976); Extraterrestrial Intelligence (1976); The Late Great Future (1976); The 10th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1977); Weird Legacies (1977); Rod Serling's Other Worlds (1978); They Came from Outer Space: 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales That Became Major Motion Pictures (1979); Ghosts That Haunt You (1980); The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction (1980); Dark Forces: New Stories of Suspense and Supernatural Horror (1980); Weekend Book of Science Fiction (1981); Scaremongers (1981); Perspectives in Literature: A Book of Short Stories, Vol. 1 (1983); 13 Horrors of Halloween (1983); The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories (1984); Fourth Planet from the Sun (1984); Cutting Edge (1986); The Monster Book of Monsters (1988); Science Fiction Stories (1988); Tales of the Occult (1989); Great Baseball Stories (1990); The Horror Hall of Fame (1991); The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces (1992); Monsters in Our Midst (1993); The Ultimate Witch (1993); Sea-Cursed (1994); Space Movies (1995); Night Screams (1996); Mystery Stories (1996); Dark Terrors 3 (1997); Time Machines (1997); The Young Oxford Book of Nasty Endings (1998); A Magic-Lover's Treasury of the Fantastic (1998); Eleventh Annual Collection (1998); The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The 50th Anniversary Anthology (1999); October Dreams (2000); The Writer's Guide to Fantasy Literature (2002); Stranger: Dark Tales of Eerie Encounters (2002); Writing Los Angeles (2002); Murder On The Railways (2003); Dark Delicacies (2005); A Tangled Web (2005); Nightmares on Congress Street, Part V (2006); Masques V (2006); Selected Shorts (2008); The Best of Cemetery Dance II (2008); Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead (2009); The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (2010); Like Water for Quarks (2011); Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury (2012); A Carnivàle of Horror (2012); Psychos (2012); Other Worlds (2013); The Time Traveler's Almanac (2013); Fantastic Stories Presents (2014); Field of Fantasies (2014); Darker Terrors 7 (2016); Grave Predictions (2016); Ex Libris: Stories of Librarians, Libraries, and Lore (2017); Lost Mars (2018); The Science Fiction Collection #1 (2018); Flight or Fright (2018); 99 Classic Science-Fiction Short Stories (2019); The Science Fiction Collection (2019); One Hundred (2020); The Ultimate Short Story Bundle (2020).